Nvidia and AMD (formerly ATI) are added to the drivers tab in slickpet, please test. There is a gui to unload nouveau and also works from console. May reboot back to desktop, will not be using nouveau, maybe vesa, nv or nvidia. Check with report-video. If not nvidia run xorgwizard with the "choose" option and pick Nvidia [makes sure it has nvidia next to it too ]

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The SIGNIFICANT thing is k3.1.10 (NEW with NO BFS patch).. one 4G_HIGHMEM and one PAE HIGHMEM.

Updates:

Quote:

update ff-convert-1.2
update slickpet -1.7.3
modify xorgwizard and create unload_nouveau
try again for carl9170 firmware
b43 firmware rolled back for slightly older kernel k3.1.10 (no BFS)
added p7zip
new pinstall.sh uses unload_nouveau script for nvidias
/usr/sbin/unload_nouveau is standalone so you can use nv or vesa after using the script. It's also i18n'd by L18L method.
nvidia 290, 173, 96, amd 12.1 for k3.1.10-slacko-4g3x
nvidia 290, 173, amd 12.1 for k3.1.10-slacko-pae
ndiswrapper is added to both
sysprof is omitted, no 3x kernel support

Please offer mainly feedback about your connection experience, drivers for your HW, that type of thing, app updates are basic arithmetic, not concerning us right now, so this is ALPHA testing, very smartly moving to BETA, then RC and RELEASE.

Perhaps warranting some concern is JWM, it is updated to svn-578, and is carrying technosaurus' jwm_tools, PPM (aka petget) is patched to gain the advantage .

I did a manual frugal install of 5.3.1.1 to my emachines D620 laptop.
When I went to setup the network connection no interfaces were
showing, I loaded the broadcom module.
I used Dougal's network wizard to set up the wireless connection,
frisbee can't see any interfaces.
The network wizard needs to be rerun every bootup.
I found out that the mesa pet doesn't work so removed it.
I ran xorgwizard and chose probe and got the radeon driver.
I installed a seamonkey 2.6.1 pet that I have and Umplayer, both work
fine.
I got a strange result when I ran the CPU frequency scaling tool (no
options available) so exited out of that.

I booted on my most used computer.
Acer D250 which is a 10" Netbook.
Intel Atom N270 CPU and Intel graphics
and as typical it trusted that I wanted
1024 x 600 instead of 1024 x 768 because
the internal screen has that format 16:9
while the external screen which I use for my poor old eyes
have 4:3 format and there 1024 x 600 leave a black border
and 1024 x 768 looks just right so that is the preferred one.

So now the only way to get 1024 x 768 would be to delete the
set up that was made automatically by editing it out if the xorg.conf

I write from a booted Slacko5311 now and it find my LAN instantly.

It did give some boot up comment that was too fast for me to read.
Maybe it is in the log? I take a look. and get back if I find it.

Hope that report helps.

Ooops don't take this personally. I do trust I know why it has
DeaMonkey instead of Firefox but I do prefer FF.

so can one not have Seamonkey as one option among many
browsers in quickpet and have some small very small browser
that tells how one do such a choice? Now this SM will be with me
forever even if it is hidden?

is this important?

xerrs.log says:

Quote:

/usr/bin/jwm
JWM: warning: /root/.jwmrc[321]: invalid tag in Active: Corner
JWM: warning: /root/.jwmrc[327]: invalid tag in Inactive: Corner
JWM: warning: empty color tag
JWM: warning: /root/.jwmrc[424]: could not open included file /root/.jwm/jwmrc-tmp
JWM: warning: /root/.jwmrc[425]: could not open included file /root/.jwm/jwmrc-install
EXIT="Exit on mouse-over"
JWM: warning: /root/.jwmrc[424]: could not open included file /root/.jwm/jwmrc-tmp
JWM: warning: /root/.jwmrc[425]: could not open included file /root/.jwm/jwmrc-install

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not an ideal solution thoughLast edited by nooby on Sun 15 Jan 2012, 15:23; edited 2 times in total

Nooby, when you boot (@pfix=ram) I want you to try something, in a terminal type "jwm -restart", tell me if that fixes your 1024x758 screen. Oh, those messages are very minor. Thanks.

James, 0 for 3 eh? I'm 3 for 3 with ethernet, oh well, looks like a kernel shortcoming. Probably more intriguing is the black screen. Maybe I should re-introduce nouveau and enable modesetting. I'll do some experiments on my nvidia kit.

Before I recompile the kernel I want to hear from some Broadcom users.

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The Broadcom B43 module was not loaded - this has been a common fault on all k3 pups I've tried so far although interestingly I also tried wuxiandianzi's k3.1.8 version of lupu528 today and that was the first that did load b43 correctly for me.

I hoped that meant the problem had been fixed from k3.1.8 onwards but now you have shattered my world with the problem still there in k3.1.9 slacko

# jwm-restart
bash: jwm-restart: command not found
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not an ideal solution thoughLast edited by nooby on Sun 15 Jan 2012, 17:02; edited 1 time in total

This kernel seems a bit of a lemon , so don't despair, I reckon there may be some dependency that is needed, or else there is a bug in newer versions of woof preventing auto loading of the broadcom driver. Lupu is built on a very old woof.

What I'll do is check wuxi's kernel config, see if there is anything broadcom related then try things out on the wife's macbook, it's the only broadcom I have access to, worked fine with 2.6.39.4._________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

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